Waterproof garment.



No. 743,174. PATENTBD NOV. 3, 1903... J. KIPP.

WATERPROOF GARME NT.

-. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1, 1902.

NO MODEL. I '2 SHEETS-SHEET L' No. 743,174. PATENTED NOV. 3, 1903.

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Patented November 3, 1903.

PATENT FFICE.

JAMES KIPP, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WATERl ROOF GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 743,174, dated November 3, 1903.

Application filed November 1, 1902. Serial No. 129,768. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES KIPP, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements inWaterproof Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is designed for the production of an improved Waterproof garment for use in automobiling, horseback-riding, driving, boating, and the like.

The object of the invention is to provide a garment of this kind which will fit the wearer about the shoulders and chest,will completely shield and protect the wearer from rain and storm, and will at the same time permit free use of the arms.

The invention consists of a waterproof garment comprising a body having'sleeves at the sides thereof, the said body being contracted and shaped to fit the wearer about the shoulders and chest and being flared from the armo'penings therein downwardly, so as to produce a loose full skirt which is continuous or unbroken in cross-section, and said body being further provided at the upper end thereof with means whereby the same may be laterally expanded or opened at the neck.

The invention also consists in certain features and details of construction, which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings forminga part: of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved waterproof garment in use on the operator of an automobile. Fig. 2 is a front view of one form of the improvedgarment. Fig. 3 is a similar view of another form of the same. Fig. 4 is a rear view of still another form, and Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the outer end of one of the sleeves.

Like reference-numerals indicate like parts in the different views.

The bodyl of my improved garment is constructed of suitable'waterproof material and has a collar 2 around the neck portion thereof. The same is also provided at its opposite sides with sleeves 3, which completely encircle the arms of the wearer, and each of said sleeves is provided at its outer end with means whereby the same may be contracted,

so as to closely embrace the wrist of the wearer. The particular means employed by me for contracting the end of each sleeve consists of a tab or projection 4., secured to the sleeve 3 and extending transversely thereof, and the buttons 5 5, adapted to be received in a buttonhole 6 in the tab 4. The buttons 5 are separated from each other, as shown, so that by connecting the tab 4 with one or the other of said buttons the sleeve at its outer end may be contracted or expanded. For the buttons and buttonholes, however, any other suitable fastening devices between the free end of the tab 4 and the sleeve 3 maybe substituted.

The upper end of the front of the body 1 is formed with a placket-opening adapted to be.

closed by a flap 7, the same extending from the throat down along the front of the chest and terminating at a point substantially in line with the points of attachment of the sleeves 3 to the body. The body 1 adjacent to said placket-opening is provided with buttons 8 and the flap 7 with buttonholes 9, by means of which said body may be readily opened and closed at its upper end. Except for the placket-opening referred to the body 1 is closed or continuous at all points. The same is contracted and made to fit the wearer about the shoulders and chest and is widened and consequently flares outwardly from a point adjacent to the sleeves 3 to its lower end, forming a loose skirt, which when in use is adapted to cover and protect all parts of the wearer from exposure to the weather.

Instead of providing a placket-opening at the upper end of the garment I may insert a loose gore 10 of pliable material into the body 1 adjacent to the neck thereof, as shown in 'Fig. 3 of the drawings.

This gore provides for the lateral expansion of the garment at its upper end to facilitate the passage of the head of the wearer through the neck thereof without leaving any opening through which the rain might beat when the garment is in use. The gore 10 is adapted to be held in folded condition and'the garment completely closed at the neck by the flap 7, which is similar in construction and operation to the flap 7. I may also form the placket-opening in the body 1 of the garment and the flap 7 therefor at the upper end of the back of the IOC body, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, instead of at the upper end of the front, as shown in Fig. 2.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I have produced a simple and eflective Waterproof garment which will serve to protect the user of an automobile, a boatman, a horseback-rider, or a driver of any vehicle from exposure to the weather and which will at the same time fit around the shoulders and chest and permit free and unrestricted movement of the arms. The same may be readily applied and as quickly removed and when in place on the wearer will completely envelop all parts of his body and protect him against rain, snow, and the like.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a waterproof garment for the protection of bicyclists and the like which is provided, with a flaring skirt and is closed at all points except adjacent to the neck. In all such garments with which I am familiar, however, there is no lit to the upper part thereof and there is no provision for the protection of the arms of the wearer which will at the same time permit of the free use of the armsthat is to say, in those old devices which have come to my attention where a flaring skirt is provided in a waterproof garment either no sleeves at all are provided or the sleeves which are used are such as will not fully protect the arms of the user and are incapable of contraction at their outer ends. I do not therefore claim, broadly, a waterproof garment having a flaring skirt; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A waterproof garment consisting of a body having sleeves at the sides thereof which completely encircle the arms of the wearer, the said body being contracted and shaped to fit the wearer about the shoulders and chest and being flared from the armopenings therein downwardly so as to produce a loose full skirt which is continuous or unbroken in cross-section, and said body being further provided with means whereby it may be laterally expanded at the neck and subsequently contracted or closed.

2. A waterproof garment consisting of a body having a collar at its upper end and sleeves at the sides thereof completely encircling the arms of the wearer and provided with means whereby their outer ends may be contracted, the said body being contracted and shaped to fit the wearer about the shoulders and chest and being flared from its upper end downwardly so as to produce a loose full skirt-Which is continuous or unbroken in cross-section, and said body being further provided with means whereby it may be laterally expanded at the neck and subsequently contracted or closed.

3. A waterproof garment consisting of a body having sleeves at the sides thereof which completely encircle the arms of the wearer, the said body being contracted and shaped to fit the wearer about the shoulders and chest and being flared from the armopenings therein downwardly so as to produce a loose full skirt which is continuous or unbroken incross-section, and said body being further provided with a loose pliable gore adjacent to the neck and with a flap whose free edge is adapted to be buttoned to said body for covering said gore and retaining the same in contracted condition.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES KIPP.

Witnesses:

F. U. SHEPARD, J r., J. C. GREEN. 

